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Grows Zamboanga Hub

15 August 2017

Cebu Pacific (CEB) will introduce flights from Cagayan de Oro to Dumaguete and Caticlan beginning October 20, 2017 with ATR72-600 services.

Flights from Laguindingan airport departs at 8:55AM arriving Caticlan at 10:30AM. Return flights is at 10:50AM arriving Cagayan at 12:25PM, while fights to Dumaguete departs at 3:15PM arriving 4:05PM and return flight is at 7:55PM arriving Cagayan de Oro at 8:50PM.

Meanwhile, CEB also upgrades Zamboanga hub by introducing first of its international flights to Sandakan, Malaysia, beginning October 29, 2017 with ATR72-600 aircraft.

The non-stop MNL – AKL flight (PR 218) will be operated initially by Airbus A340-300 aircraft thrice weekly – every Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday departing Manila at 11:15PM, and arriving Auckland at 2:05PM local time the following day. Return flight (PR 219) leaves Auckland every Friday, Saturday and Tuesday at 12:30AM local time arriving Manila at 5:45AM.

Service upgrade will be made available beginning next year with Airbus A330-300 aircraft.

Meanwhile, Manila-Cairns route will be dropped temporarily beginning December 5. Flight services is expected to resume next year when more A321neo aircraft orders are delivered.

Currently, some Cairns to Manila flights on A320 and A321s are diverted to Davao airport for technical stopovers due to range issues.

Rural airline Air Juan opens up Sipalay Airport to traffic as it begins scheduled flight services to Cebu yesterday and Iloilo today.

The LGU operated airport opens its door to Air Juan Aviation Inc., as it connects to Cebu and Iloilo twice a week to cater to tourists traffic.

The erstwhile Maricalum airstrip is the first LGU operated airport in the country with Air Juan being the first airline to use it in scheduled service. Other general aviation planes also uses the airport for personal transport of passengers.

Air Juan president, John Anthony Gutierrez, said that they are planning to connect Sipalay airport to Busuanga and El Nido, all in northern Palawan, aside from Cebu and Iloilo to address the foreign passenger traffic's demand.

Flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) will fly back the B777-300ER aircraft to London Heathrow beginning September 19 instead of December 16, 2017 but with reduce daily services to 5 times a week.

The flight reduction will be temporary as the airline awaits delivery of another B777 frame by December where it flies back to daily services to LHR.

PAL said it is up-sizing the route from Airbus 340 to enable the airline to bring forward the retirement of some of its current A340-300 fleet which will be fully withdrawn from service in 2018 after arrival of its A350-900.

Opens Old Routes, Add new ones with Q400s

1 August 2017

Q400NG (sn4561,RP-C5901) on its inaugural flight to Caticlan and Clark airport

Flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) is growing back its domestic portfolio by re-opening suspended routes that were previously abandoned due to poor sales and opening up new routes for their newly acquired Q400 NGs.

Resumption of flights schedules are being planned together with introduction of new routes for the following destinations:

CLARK HUB
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CEBU HUB
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CEBU-MAMBAJAO_______________new
CEBU-LAOAG___________________ new
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